Blizzard’s MOBA Heroes of the Storm is undergoing some big changes. The developer announced today that it is moving some developers on the game to other projects, while the game’s major competitive tournaments are coming to an end. In a blog post, Blizzard’s J. Allen Brack and Ray Gresko said the developer is making the “tough choice” to move developers...

The holidays are just around the corner, and in keeping with the spirit of giving, developer IO Interactive has a lot of free content in store for Following that, IO will release a “holiday surprise” in Hitman 2 next week, on December 18. The developer didn’t share any further details about what the “surprise” will entail, but it notes the event will only...

In an exciting, unexpected moment at The Game Awards, the first of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s DLC characters was revealed. Joker, the protagonist of Persona 5, will be playable in the new fighting game, the launch of which is just minutes away. During a segment where Geoff Keighley was on stage, the lights cut out and led to a trailer featuring dialogue with various characters from Persona 5. That in turn revealed Joker as a...

While there were a number of fantastic deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year, Spider-Man on PS4 wasn’t among them. Well, OK, there was that great PS4 bundle that included Spider-Man, but that sold out in seconds… To make up for last time, both Amazon and Walmart are offering a substantial discount on one of the PS4’s best games today: $20 off Spider-Man on PS4. Unfortunately, there’s a catch. Because...

The first major update is coming to Battlefield V next week alongside the the launch of the World War II game’s Tides of War event. While the full patch notes have not been released yet, developer DICE has started to provide some insight into what you can expect for this update and ones to come on a further-out timeline. Writing on Reddit, the studio said one of the more notable changes has to do with the Time to Kill (TTK) and...

Rockstar Games has announced an official clothing line based on Red Dead Redemption 2. The game developer partnered with clothing company Barking Irons for a line of clothing and accessories that are modeled after what main character Arthur Morgan wore in the game. Available in unisex sizes from XS to XXL, the Red Dead Redemption 2 Collection, as it’s called, includes a number of items, beginning with the water-resistant...

One bomb of a Microsoft hardware leak has just dropped from an unlikely source: the final chapter of a non-fiction novel penned by a technology journalist. “Beneath a Surface,” the debut novel by Brad Sams of Thurrott.com fame available now in ebook format, has lots of information on future of Surface, Xbox and even the long-rumored Andromeda device. Speaking to anonymous sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, Sams learned of...

If it feels like there’s more YouTube videos about franchises like Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite than there is around Mario Party, The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, it probably has something to do with the Creators Program, a policy instituted by Nintendo that squirreled away up to 40% of a YouTube video’s ad revenue after YouTube had taken a cut. It’s an antiquated program that streamers hate and...